reaction v. solution

20. Ability to deal with uncertainty and an unpredictable work environment. Please describe previous experience:

I have worked in a variety of high-stress and uncertain environments. With Equipe Spectra, for example, I was called on to manage a team in difficult work conditions whilst managing a kiosk in a high traffic, crowded setting. While working in Japan, the language barrier often made the work environment unpredictable.

These experiences, as well as others, have taught me to remain patient, calm and rational when faced with uncertainty. Although emotional reactions are a normal bi-product of stressful or uncertain situations, I have learnt to treat these separately. I am always aware of the fine line between a reaction and a solution, and when faced with uncertainty always opt for the latter. When faced with uncertainty, I remain alert, and most of all flexible, as I realize I am often the one who will need to adapt to the situation, and not the opposite.

A young girl, tiny tiny young girl was sitting in front of me. Her frame already diminutive, was made even smaller by the fact that the Ottawa skyline (generally unimpressive, made monumental by the fact that we were on the 27th floor of a glass-walled building)

I kindly propose she change her project to one involving research.

A person cannot be your project, but only experience will teach her that, not a 15-minute face-to-face